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How CloudFlare understands 4 million lines of logs a second to thwart attackers
At four million log lines a second, CloudFlare, Inc. sees a great deal of traffic. So much traffic, in fact, that it’s impossible to digest without some sort of Big Data solution and filtering to break it down into its informative components. To explain how CloudFlare does this heroic job, John Graham-Cumming spoke at the ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 June 24: Bitcoin block size scalability news, Nasdaq partners with Chain, JoyStream BitTorrent for bitcoin, Scrypt.cc hacked
This whole month has seen a great deal of movement on Gavin Andresen’s proposal for increasing the Bitcoin blockchain block size. Currently, a split in opinion of Bitcoin Core developers has thrown a roadblock in the way of adopting a new standard, and most like a new codebase, to support larger block sizes. See below ...
Authy: Why two-factor security matters to gamers and game developers
It has been the era of online identity theft and account compromise for over a decade now and few users know this as well as gamers and game companies. To help combat this scourge of account hijacking, Authy, a subsidiary of Twilio Inc., produces a two-factor authentication service for consumers and developers that the company hopes ...
The Division developer Massive Entertainment cancels mobile companion app | #E32015
It appears that Tom Clancy’s The Division won’t be bringing their friends into the game via mobile and tablets after all. Massive Entertainment (aka Ubisoft Massive) confirmed to IGN today that the tablet app has been cancelled. The Division is an open-world RPG shooter with player-vs-player elements set in a post-apocalypse world where virus has ...
New Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns expansion preorder pricing raises hackles | #E32015
Colin Johanson, ArenaNet Inc. Game Designer, appeared during the E3 PC Gaming Show and announced that pre-orders for the company’s upcoming expansion to it’s free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) game Guild Wars 2 had just started. The expansion, dubbed Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, sports a cool $49.99 price tag for the Standard Edition, ...
Heinz apologizes for QR code on ketchup bottle that led to hardcore porn site
Pennsylvania-based H. J. Heinz Company, maker of a much beloved condiment across the world — Heinz Tomato Ketchup — just learned the hard way that the Internet is forever and that names, especially domain names, can come back to bite you. The Independent reports that a German man was in for a surprise when he ...
VR controllers get a boost with Nod Labs $13.5 million funding round
California-based startup Nod Labs landed $13.5 million in funding to work on a new line of multi-platform controllers designed for virtual reality (VR) experiences. Nod Labs received $2.3 million in seed funding in August 2013 and is known already for developing the Nod Ring, an advanced gesture ring controller designed for connected devices. This funding ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 June 17: Gyft blockchain gift cards, Coinbase Instant Exchange, Kraken dark pool trading, and more
Bitcoin news this week is very much in the business side of things, but Bitcoin users (and consumers in general) will reap many of the benefits of these new projects. Gyft is partnering with Chain.com and using the Open Assets Protocol to put gift cards on the Bitcoin blockchain. Coinbase announced the launch of Instant ...
Nintendo’s new Star Fox Zero means to put the Wii U second screen to use | #E32015
The Wii U has been something of a bastard child for Nintendo Co., Ltd.—it’s an interesting idea, but public expectations and, equally so, market adoption seem to have fallen somewhat flat. As to the novelty of the second-screen in the GamePad that the Wii-U gives to players it’s often treated exactly like that for most ...
Xbox E3 press conference reveals games, Xbox One backwards compatibility with 360
Today’s Microsoft Xbox press conference before the start of E3 contained a huge number of announcements—mostly games—that will most certainly drive Microsoft and the Xbox One console into the holiday season as the year rounds up. First and foremost, the announcement from Microsoft that backwards compatibility is coming to the Microsoft Xbox One should ring ...